The Christian Association of Nigeria has appealed to the Indigenous People of Biafra to allow the General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Kumuyi, to hold his crusade in Abia State.
IPOB had in a statement by the group’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful on Thursday advised Kumuyi to cancel the planned six-day crusade scheduled to hold from May 24 to May 29, 2022 in Aba, Abia State due to security concerns in the South-East region.
“Let him and the organisers of the crusade make sure that nothing happens. The security of this region is not good because of political and criminal activities. We, therefore, advise him to stop this crusade for security reasons.
“IPOB will not allow anyone to die because of this crusade scheduled to hold in Aba. The probability of criminals operating as unknown gunmen infiltrating the crusade is high and they will blame it on IPOB,” Powerful wrote.
Reacting to IPOB’s directive, the spokesperson of CAN, Adebayo Oladeji, in an interview with The PUNCH asked IPOB to reconsider their decision.
He explained that the bloodshed and other forms of insecurity in the state and South-East as a whole requires God’s intervention.
He added that Kumuyi’s coming to the state would be a blessing to the people of the state.
“It is unfortunate that we have killings going on in the South East. If the political will is there, I believe the killings in the region would have ended,” The PUNCH quoted Oladeji as saying.
“We have a situation where you have IPOB declaring sit-at-home and despite the assurance by the government, people will decide to listen to IPOB. Is that what Nigeria should be? This is the situation we find ourselves.
“If IPOB issued such a statement, it is just a reflection of what we are going through in the country. This situation is a precarious one. What CAN will say is that our politicians are in the rat race again. We should open our eyes and vote for people who can protect us.
“There’s nothing we can do than to appeal to them (IPOB). We want IPOB to know that his coming to that part of the country is going to be a blessing and bring victory to the people of the state and the region at large.”
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